This book series contains summaries of most of the Star Trek books I’ve read, and I include how the story ends (but you know who’s going to win at the end anyway, don’t you?) These are not meant to be reviews, and in no way reflect on whether I liked the book or not. OK, I liked all of them simply because they are Star Trek, but I did enjoy some more than others.
I prepared the summaries originally to give myself an easy way to remember what the storylines were, without having to dig through hundreds of books, and I hope you find the information useful in that way. The summaries have accumulated over many decades, so there will be some variation in style and length. I originally aimed at producing a one paragraph summary for each book, but those paragraphs often grew to be more like full pages.
Generally speaking, I have listed the books in order of publication date, which was also mainly the order that I read them. However, for this book I have normally brought together stories that are part of a series. Sometimes series are split, depending on which TV series they relate to mostly.
There have been novelizations of the Star Trek films and of some of the TV episodes, but I have not written summaries for those, as it much more fun watching reruns or recordings of them. Besides, at least for the films, you should be able to find such plot summaries on Wikipedia.
This volume contains books related to the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager TV series. Books that relate to those series but are mainly set in an alternative universe have been separated out from those related specifically to the universe depicted in the TV series.
Almost all of these novels are still available for purchase, often in paperback form and almost certainly as a Kindle edition, so you can get into binge-reading.
When a well-known novel gets made into a film, there are frequently complaints that this part or that part of the story is left out of the film. Unfortunately, that has to happen because there simply isn’t time to cover everything in the two hours or less of a film. Likewise, in summarizing the books I have had to leave out subplots and even simplify the main plot even more than a filmmaker has to.
I hope you find these summaries useful.